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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by mrjangles on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:59PM (#29126863)
A solar farm that produces the same power as a nuclear power station (1GW) requires 1000 3MW turbines (33% efficiency) at 700 meters apart.

That's 500 square kilometers of turbines (something like 200 square miles).

I once did the calculation and it came out to something like 10 times as much concrete and steel to build the turbines as it would have taken to build the nuclear power plant.

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by yellowapple on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:20PM (#29127216)
Did you mean wind instead of solar? Or panels instead of turbines?
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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by mrjangles on Saturday November 06, 2021 @09:06AM (#29129891)
yes, I mean wind, thank you.
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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by pvaldes on Sunday November 07, 2021 @04:55AM (#29137941)
> 10 times as much concrete and steel to build the turbines as to build the nuclear power plant

But all those materials are 100% recyclable as raw matters the next week after the wind turbines close.

With nuclear, you can't touch those iron an concrete in generations. And we need to include in our calculus the two concrete sarcophagous that were required in Chernobyl also. We will be pouring tons of concrete for a lot of time in that place.

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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by Gwypaas on Saturday November 06, 2021 @06:43AM (#29129107)
60-64% capacity factor, 14MW.

https://www.ge.com/renewableenergy/wind-energy/offshore-wind...

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